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As Artemis 2 approached, my anticipation was mixed with uncertainty. Would this new Moon mission spark the wonder and excitement I'd felt during Apollo? Those doubts didn't last long.

"They are truly ready for long duration space flights and lunar habitation."

Astronauts aboard Artemis 2 and the ISS connected across a record-breaking Earth–moon distance in the farthest crew call ever made in space.

A little patience, luck and a well-placed camera can still deliver a dazzling fireball — even from a city.

"Rise Wiseman" might be the most beloved mission mascot in history.

"The discovery of this exceptional object has allowed us to accurately study the nature of the stars at the center of an elliptical galaxy in a remote era of the universe, when the galaxy was still young."

NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission wowed the world enough to earn a space spoof skit on Saturday Night Live one day after a perfect splashdown. Watch how it went.

Chevron seven, locked!

Artemis 2 kicks off a lunar "relay race" that will lead the NASA and its international partners to a moon base and, eventually, Mars, NASA chief Jared Isaacman says.

SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets 19 hours apart, both carrying batches of Starlink satellites. The liftoffs took place from Florida and California on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 (by local time zone).

Scientists warn that extreme space weather could influence human behavior, from panic buying to protests and misinformation.

The comet is already visible to the naked eye ahead of its perihelion passage on April 19.

The Artemis 2 mission to the moon beamed back some incredible photos, and we've rounded up the best ones.

Artemis 2's Victor Glover and Christina Koch are all smiles after splashdown.

Rise joined the Artemis 2 crew as a mascot of the moon, bearing 5.6 million names. But the mascot quickly took on a new meaning.

The uncrewed Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL spacecraft, the S.S. Steven R. Nagel, arrived at the International Space Station on Monday (April 13), bringing with it about 11,000 pounds of supplies.

"This is the least transparent NASA budget request I've ever seen — and I've literally looked through every single one since 1960."

It just goes on and on, my friends.

New research shows that craters near the moon's south pole that have been in permanent shadow the longest are more likely to contain the most water ice.

Gravitational waves may have provided the first tantalizing evidence of tiny primordial black holes born during the Big Bang, which could account for dark matter.

Earth shines above the lunar horizon in a new Artemis 2 photo.